* 1977 – Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer

* 1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer

* 1974 – Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer

However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.

Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

He intended to expand into Costa Rica and after he entered Costa Rican territory, Costa Rica declared war.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

* Costa Rican Archaeology

* Costa Rican Pre-Columbian City of Guayabo

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

Together the protected areas comprise over one-fourth of Costa Rican territory.

Immigrants in Costa Rica represent about 10. 2 % of the Costa Rican population.

: Noun: Costa Rican ( s )

: Adjective: Costa Rican

* Costa Rican Renovation Party ( Partido Renovación Costariccense ).

In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

Costa Rica has no military but maintains domestic Police and armed National Guard forces securing its interests.

Costa Rica maintains small forces capable of law enforcement and foreign peacekeeping, but has no permanent standing army.

A dispute emerged when Costa Rica tried to navigate with armed members of its security forces.

Panama is the second country in Latin America ( the other being Costa Rica ) to permanently abolish standing armies, leaving it with only small para-military forces.

Michelangelo's two Slaves were among the rich appointments of the château Richelieu, where there were the Nativity triptych by Dürer and paintings by Mantegna, Lorenzo Costa and Perugino, lifted from the Gonzaga collection at Mantua by French military forces in 1630, as well as numerous antiquities.

Spadafora was detained by Noriega's forces when entering Panama from Costa Rica in September 1985, and his decapitated body was later found stuffed in a post office bag.

This was a plan intended to promote democracy and peace on the Central American isthmus during a time of great turmoil: leftist guerrillas were fighting against the governments in El Salvador and Guatemala, which were backed by the United States under the auspices of the Cold War ; the Contras, supported by the United States, were fighting an insurgency against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua ; Honduras, only recently wresting political power from its military, was caught in the middle as a base for U. S. military forces ; and on Costa Rica's other border, Panama faced the oppression of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship.

Nicaragua sent its forces into Costa Rica to suppress Estrada's pro U. S. destabilizing forces, but U. S. officials deemed the incursion as an affront to Estrada's aims and attempted to coerce Costa Rica into acting first against Nicaragua, but Foreign Minister Ricardo Fernández Guardia assured Calvo that Costa Rica was determined " not to enter such dangerous actions as those proposed by Washington.

Walker sent Colonel Schlessinger to invade Costa Rica in a preemptive action, but his forces were defeated at the Battle of Santa Rosa in March 1856.

The ' Apostolic Administrator ' ( de facto Bishop ) of the Diocese of Dili, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes, began speaking out against human rights abuses by the Indonesian security forces, including rape, torture, murder, and disappearances.

Costa Rica, having disbanded its formal army in 1949, set up a hastily prepared national force that repelled the invasion stopping the Calderón forces in the Hacienda Santa Rosa in northern Guanacaste.

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During the Rivas Battle Cholera spread out on both filibuster and Costa Rican forces.

On July 14 Bolívar led an assault against Ocumare de la Costa, which ended in a debacle in which Bolívar abandoned Mariño, Piar and the rest of his forces, and fled by sea.

It was originally part of Costa Rica until, in one of the many territorial disputes, Colombia took control of it with armed forces.

During the Peninsular War the area of Costa del Sol was considered of secondary importance and it was seized by the French forces with little opposition and until 1810 the partisan activity in the region was close to none.

It is named after Costa Rica's national hero, Juan Santamaría, a courageous drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by US-American filibuster William Walker.

Relatives of Spadafora claimed that witnesses had seen him in the custody of Panamanian security forces near the Costa Rica border immediately before his decapitated body was found on September 14, 1985.

Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.

* May 28 – The 1926 coup d ' état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal installs the Ditadura Nacional ( National Dictatorship ), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.

The second-largest exporting country is Vietnam, with 13. 6 %, followed by Indonesia ( 5. 8 %) and Costa Rica ( 2. 1 %).

" They followed with a 4 – 0 win over China and a 5 – 2 win over Costa Rica.

In 2008 a new TACA brand logo was introduced followed by a new fleet of Embraer 190 airplanes registered in Costa Rica for strategic reasons and operated under the Lacsa code.

English is the first foreign language and the second most taught language in Costa Rica, followed by French, German, Italian and Chinese.

Guevara studied at the University of Costa Rica where he earned Bachelor ’ s degree in law followed by a Masters in International Business from National University of Costa Rica and a second Masters degree in Law with an emphasis on Conflict Resolution from Harvard University.

He remained at the National Heritage Service until retirement, acceding to the top post of director, where he was followed by his granddaughter Maria Elisa Costa.

Mayer followed in the footsteps of multi-platinum bands like Eve 6 and Maroon 5, who performed special acoustic shows at Pennsbury in 2003 organized by Costa.

Their tournament opened with a nil-nil draw with the Costa Ricans, which they followed with a 2-1 loss to Portugal, having trailed two-nil before they snatched back a late consolation goal.

In 2006, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi, the former Costa Rican Minister of Environment and Energy, was attacked and injured by a tapir after he followed it off the trail.

At least four sets of researchers have worked independently for decades on this problem and have identified generally the same Big Five factors: Tupes & Cristal were first, followed by Goldberg at the Oregon Research Institute, Cattell at the University of Illinois, and Costa and McCrae at the National Institutes of Health.

Pentagon was closely followed by the NEO five-factor personality inventory, published by Costa and McCrae in 1985.

They released the singles " Don Quichotte " and " Rendez-vous sur la Costa del Sol ," both of which appeared on the 1985 album that followed, Costa del Sol.

On August 23, 1979 Freda was captured in Costa Rica and extradited to Italy, after which several trials followed, and he was sentenced to 15 years of jail for " subversive association " on March 20, 1981, then acquitted on August 1, 1985 for lack of evidence.

During this period, WYBE moved into a new facility ; shifted from analog to digital television, and focused on original productions, such as Culture Trek ( a series of three specials, followed US teenagers as they pursued projects with local teens in Costa Rica, Ireland, and Jamaica ), The Neighbors Project, The Tolerance Project ( which addressed race, sexual orientation and religion ) The station also featured a nightly talk show, Philly Live, which was later restructured into five different talk shows: Gente ( Hispanic ), Shades of Opinion ( African-American ), Asian Outlook, Global Lens and Out Loud ( LGBT ).

She earned national recognition when she followed up her Top 10 finish at the World Poker Tour ( WPT ) Costa Rica Classic with a win at the WPT Ladies ' Night event in 2003, then the highest rated WPT show ever broadcast.

Moto followed soon after ( also using Costa ) and later Welcome Break utilised Starbucks.

Corella has also performed in numerous festivals, galas, and special performances around the world, including The Kings of the Dance which premiered, in February 2006, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA, immediately followed by an East Coast premiere at City Center.

He was educated at two independent schools: The Hall School in Hampstead in London, and Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset, followed by the University of Portsmouth and the University of Costa Rica.

He then led Mexico to a comeback win over the same opposition at the Estadio Azteca on August 12, 2009 and followed it up by winning 3 – 0 in Costa Rica, putting Mexico closer to a qualifying spot for the World Cup that seemed to be an impossible task at the time when Eriksson was sacked.